Colonial US

Question 1

Answer 1

Ellicott revision of L’Enfant Plan of Washington DC, 1792

Question 2

Answer 2

New Haven Plan

English Colony

1638

9 square grid, same typology as London Squares except central square is ***public***

Question 3

Answer 3

Savannah, 1732, English Colonial Town

Square typology in a ‘new’ 4 block module

Easier to retain essence of plan as city grows in population

Question 4

Answer 4

Savannah Plan, 1732, English Colonial Town

9 square grid typology from England, green square

Question 5

Answer 5

New Orleans, French Settlement

Parcels oriented to river, long linear

Question 6

Answer 6

Land Ordinance 1785

1 mile square grid, irrespective to land forms

very impactful, unprecendented

Question 7

Answer 7

“Jeffersonian Grid”

Result of Land Ordinance 1785 - grid laid across the land with respecting natural formations

Question 8

Answer 8

San Antonio, Texas

1691

Spanish colonial

“The law of the Indies”

Influenced by Vitruvius and Alberti

Question 9

Answer 9

Philadelphia

British colony

1681

Willian Penn

9 square grid typology from England, green square

Question 10

Answer 10

Savannah, Georgia

British Colony

1732

Question 11

Answer 11

Covent Garden

1627-1630

example- London residential squares

Influenced the American square in cities like New Haven

Question 12

Answer 12

St. James Squre

1665-1720

English planning model

Question 13

Answer 13

Pierre Charles L’Enfant plan for Washington DC

1791

First adition

*was never built because George Washington didn’t like the franch geometry

Question 14

Answer 14

Prefect of the Seine

1853

Baron George Eug’ene Haussmann, working with Napoleon on reconstructing Paris

Question 15

Answer 15

Charles Marville

“Photographer of the City of Paris”

under Napoleon, documents the work of Haussmann

Question 16

The Law of the Indies

Answer 16

Plan centered on a Plaza Mayor (main square) of size within specified limits, from which twelve straight streets are built in a rectilinear grid. The directions of the streets are chosen according to the prevailing winds, to protect the Plaza Mayor.

Question 17

Answer 17

France, July Revolution, 1848, Napolean Elected, Haussman appointed to ‘air out’ the city.

Marville photographs portions of city to be demolished

Blocks of housing torn down to make space for roads and to erradicate slums

Question 18

Answer 18

Paris St, “Rainy Day” 1877 Gustave Caillebotte

• handsome, well-dressed peopl
• new paving
• shedding medieval face for modern face

Question 19

Answer 19

Triumphal Arch: recalling Roman past (to equate themselves to ancient model)

-unified streetscape

But form recalls absolutist past